Book Review: Jasper Fforde’s The Big Over Easy
Was Humpty’s fall an accident, or was it murder? It’s up to giant killer Jack Spratt of the Nursery Crime Division to find out whodunnit.
Was Humpty’s fall an accident, or was it murder? It’s up to giant killer Jack Spratt of the Nursery Crime Division to find out whodunnit.
The fate of the world is down to a PITA Crow girl, Erin Amsel, who must retrieve a giant’s sword by going where no Crow dares. And Stieg Engstrom is just the Raven to help her.
A hidden superbeing, android replacements, and an army of Fem-Bots turn the peace talks into a Battle Royale that the team might not actually survive. Earth may not make it, either.
Someone—or something—is attacking humans sensitive to the supernatural world, and Charley Davidson’s number one suspect is the dark entity she’s loved for centuries.
Young women are disappearing in the dark of night, reappearing as automatons. Nan, Sarah and the Watsons discover it was no ordinary horror that drove them mad.
There’s a man, Dr. DOA, who gets away with murder, removing problems from other people’s lives. And the poison he’s used on Eddie is immune to any cure.
Weapons are flying off the shelves at the local pawnshop in Midnight, Texas—only to be used in sudden and dramatic suicides right at the main crossroads in town.
Now Magnus and his crew must sail to the farthest borders of Jotunheim and Niflheim in pursuit of Asgard’s greatest threat and prevent Ragnarok.
Twenty tales of the fantastic with twenty heroes that you might be able to relate to, no matter your sex, ethnicity, age, or experience.
Grief and a constant stream of guilt prods the young countess, April O’Leary, a computer dryad, to push at the barrier of death with the aid of Sir October Daye.